Who knew it would take this long? Frame-by-frame animation has its rewards, but it can be an incredibly tedious process.

Most of these images were created with pastels, shot with my 7D, adjusted in Photoshop, and compiled in After Effects.

With only two weeks to go til this is due, there’s still lots left to finish, including the sound design. I had envisioned making a composition. Well, I had envisioned lots of things, but deadlines got in the way.

School will be over soon! (Jumping for joy.)

Week 6

Had some fun working with clay this weekend with my friend Linny, who owns Fired Earth Studios in Hot Springs. She’s great at animals!

(Also learned how to embed a video directly into the page without first posting it to Vimeo! Converted it to low resolution so it doesn’t look that great, but you get the idea.)

Also worked on the green screen project for the motion class.

Week 5

Cut up my big storyboard so I could make a flip book. Kind of sorry I did it, but having one was part of the assignment. Sigh…

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For my Thunderbird animation project, I made a painting for the opening frames. I’ll be zooming in on the water in the center foreground, where the Thunderbird will rise up from.

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Allow me to also introduce you to the work of Akajork, who is the inspiration for my painting. The artist spent a long time making his piece masterful, while mine is a simple sketch. If I’m going to really take this project anywhere, I’ll have to re-imagine the skyline myself. I also watched The Matrix again this weekend, in which, you may recall, there’s a beautifully rendered apocalyptic cityscape.